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EYEWITNESS: I was driving home with Rentongal on 405 and we saw the pack of approx 30 motorcyclists with 5-10 of them popping wheelies and staying up on one wheel in three lanes of traffic while they were driving with cars all around them. We couldn't believe our eyes and knew that an accident was going to happen because of it. Rentongal told me that she had seen the trooper off the highway right before we saw the motorcyclists so we were hoping they would get busted before someone got killed. They were driving extremely recklessly so the cop had to do something before more help could come. Yes, he probably shouldn't have gone on a high speed chase but the whole story wasn't told about what these cyclists were doing before the chase.
We saw the pack of 30 motorcycles right before they passed the police car. They were doing wheelies at high speeds accross all 3 lanes of traffic! I'm all for a good adrenaline rush, but when I FREQUENTLY see the crotch rockets fly down the freeway on one wheel in the middle of rush hour...can you say "death wish" for themselves or the car they hit when the wipe out on the freeway?? No one can expect the cop to just sit there and do nothing as they passed him. Although, if he was "leading the group" at a very low speed down the freeway (the part I didn't see) and not allowing them to pass, I'm not sure what he was expecting to accomplish. What did he intend to do once they were following him? For the cyclests to turn around and taunt the officer after his car had flipped is tastless and childish. Sounds like there was a lot of testosterone flowing and egos that got in the way!
I doubt we will get the real story
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